M. S. Swaminathan: Quotes about food

“The right to food has to become the right to good food”

M. S. Swaminathan

Source: S., Bala Ravi, I., I. Hoeschle-Zeledon, I., Swaminathan, M.S., Frison, E. (eds.), Hunger and poverty: the role of biodiversity, http://books.google.com/books?id=zKkd79GWbBoC&pg=PA69, Bioversity International, 978-92-9043-703-1, 69–

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“So there is a big transformation. Also if you see the average lifespan, which was 28–29 in 1947, is now 64–65. In Kerala it is 74 or so. I am sure soon it will become 80–90. That is partly also because of food, because without nutrition, it is not possible. So we have had a transformation in our economic wellbeing. But that is not spread evenly in society; there are still very poor people, the highly deprived. In my view, the first task of both science and society is to address this issue”

M. S. Swaminathan

On changes in the living conditions in India since Indepencnce in 1947 pdf, In Conversation: M. S. Swaminathan, 25 October 2011, Current Science http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/101/08/0996.pdf,

People , Food , Science

“Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food.”

M. S. Swaminathan

Agri Quotes, 25 November 2013, Zeenews India http://zeenews.india.com/mahindrasamriddhi/agriawards/agri.html,

People , Food , Home , Country

“Let me make it very clear that the days of cheap food are over, just as the days of cheap oil are over”

M. S. Swaminathan

Agri Quotes, 25 November 2013, Zeenews India http://zeenews.india.com/mahindrasamriddhi/agriawards/agri.html,

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“Eternal vigilance is the price of food security.”

M. S. Swaminathan

[Chaturvedi, Pradeep, Women and Food Security: Role of Panchayats, http://books.google.com/books?id=IuKV5ak57asC&pg=PA46, 1 January 2002, Concept Publishing Company, 978-81-7022-873-8, 46–]

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“Dr. Swaminathan is a living legend. His contributions to Agricultural Science have made an indelible mark on food production in India and elsewhere in the developing world. By any standards, he will go into the annals of history as a world scientist of rare distinction.”

M. S. Swaminathan

Stated by Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations on the occasion of award of the First World Food Prize. Quoted here World Food Prize, Prof. Swaminathan, 1987 World Food Prize Laureate, 25 November 2013, World Food Prize Organization http://www.worldfoodprize.org/Laureates/Past/1987.htm,

World , Science , History , Food